Lost Job (Again) -- what to do?? | ADHD Information

my honest advice is to start your own business and be your own man. how is your credit? if it is good enough to get a good sized loan, i would think of some business idea, devised on what you like doing, and making a business out of it. i would love to start my own business but my credit is bad, since i am a college student, with add. oh... and are you married? if you start your own business, i would ask your wife to handle the financial parts of it :). Start my own business doing what exactly?? I have about ,000 in investments, ,000 in cash + Unemployment payments. My credit is OK but not great (I do have alot of credit card debt but it is current).

I actually think that with the correct meds (adderall & prozac seem to be working), I can force myself to focus & do what it takes to keep a job even if I don't like it. It is just getting rehired with this history (but I won't include the 4 month job on my resume)
effective businesses always have a unique and useful idea. think of a problem, and fix it. then sell the solution. what problem? use your creative side. This time after only 4 months. Maybe this is the wrong type of work for ADHD (Fund Accounting) -- very detail & task oriented. I never felt that I fit into this company. 2 weeks after a 'final written warning', I was termed.

This isn't the first time, in July 2005 a similar incident happened. I quit my last job hastily for this opportunity that didn't work out.

I always believed that I had ADHD, Anxiety, depression or probably a mix of all 3. I started seeing a psyc last December who wouldn't prescribe any type of ADHD drug but put me on Prozac going to 60MG. It made me feel good almost hypomanic at times.

I then saw a new psyc about a month ago who continued the Prozac, but added Ritalin 20MG a day. The ritalin made me feel 'buzzed' and I felt a bad crash 4 hours after taking it. Then Adderall XR 10MG a day with Prozac. I feel better, it calms me down.

But the 'damage' is done. I am 32 years old. My career basically for the last 10 years has 'sucked'. Going from job to job- temp, perm quitting some, getting fired from others. Having to sort of fabricate my job history so I can gain employment anywhere.

Seriously, I hate sitting in a cubicle all day 'crunching numbers' & being almost obsessive about it. I actually would like to do a 'trade type' job even if it means starting at the bottom.

But does anyone have any advice. I have enough savings so I can pay for COBRA with the unemployment insurance so I can continue the meds & Prozac.

Lost Job (Again) -- what to do??

Look for another one.

I've been fired 17 times, and quit another dozen or so.

maybe your having a problem sleep wise. go get a sleep study. I bet you may have a form of apnea. you sleep, but it does you no good. Oh, do I disagree about starting your own business. I have my own business and you have got to be up on the details or you will fail. There are a lot of different things to think about at once. It's hard. Being in business for yourself can be great for someone with ADHD if they have someone to help get their ducks in a row and if they have a lot of solid experience with something. That's not the first thing I'd suggest to anyone.

It does sound like you need to move around. Why not learn a trade? Can you go through a book like "What Color is Your Parachute"? That helped me a lot way back when. I guess that there are better books out now for changing careers -- check Amazon for recommendations.

Sorry you lost your job. That is harsh. Maybe there is a silver lining and you will find something more appropriate for you.

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a business is a mistake. trust me. been there, done that. screwed it all up. We can't follow through 100%. so unless you own the place and have people in place beneath you, your out of luck. You may need a physical type job to burn off energy.

Me, I go honkers sitting at a desk. I gotta move around.

Crunching numbers may not be for you--if it was, you wouldn't be jumping jobs so much.

Think of this as your time to find something more suitable to your talents.
I agree with MetisRebel...think about what you've always really wanted to do. Within reason, of course

I think most people tend to settle into jobs that they don't particularly like, and I think this is more prone to make someone like us less than happy, and sometimes less than successful. If you think about what you'd like to do, and couple that with your apparent business acumen, you could come up with your dream job (and potentially really rake in the dough). I never considered what I do for money to be a job. My sister-in-law disagrees and says it's not called work for nothing, but I refuse to live like that, and so far being employed has been stable and fairly happy. I think that works because either what I'm doing or who I'm doing it with are a good match for my personality and skills. Don't get me wrong, I'm pushed a lot by people around me to reach higher, make more, and I always refuse because at the heart of it, it's being happy that counts (as long as I'm not living in a cardboard box

) However, now that I'm harnessing this ADD thing, I may be able to push it further and do what I really wanted to do, just like I'm telling you! Think about it...this could be the epiphany that turns it all around for you. Gosh golly, I feel a quote from Auntie Mame coming on..."LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" [/QUOTE]

I am so THERE krazy. Nobody does well at an unsuitable job or in an unsuitable environment.

We have to spend the majority of our lives in the workplace. Now, we don't always get a job we like for the short term but there's nothing more satisfying than spending that time every day at something that doesn't feel like WORK. I've felt the difference and the amount of stress/bullspit/insanity/bad boss etc that one can tolerate at the right job is amazin'

There's nothing worse than spending the majority of one's day in an unhappy place. It's like sleeping on a concrete floor instead of a fluffy bed.

"the only regret someone should have about their work is that it ends" --Einstein.

Find someone who writes resumes. I did that after more than five years as a geologic lab tech for a large company.

I love geology, but it wasn't paying the bills. I'm now a purchasing agent. Sometimes, the resume writers can give you a better idea to what your really suited for. Or, find someone or somewhere that gives career counseling.

If I'm not happy doing something, I am miserable to live with, miserable to work with. And I'm miserable with myself. Sounds like you have the same issue, in some respects.

What do you really like to do? Do you REALLY like to screw around with numbers? Is there something else you're good at? If you do like crunching numbers, is there some type of job out there that changes things up a bit each week? This way, you know that next week, you'll be in the field. The week after that is i.e., lab work, the next week is at the desk, etc.

What about a firm/company that specializes in telling other companies how they're wasting money? That might be something, since it may change month to month and give you the opprotunity to get out and about a bit, too.